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In the wake of World War II, with Britain’s empire collapsing and Stalin’s on the rise, US officials under new Secretary of State George C. Winner of the New-York Historical Society Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History Winner of the American Academy of Diplomacy Douglas Dillon Award Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize in Literary Nonfiction From the author of Battle of Bretton Woods comes a “brilliant book…by far the best study yet” (The Wall Street Journal) of the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan and its long-lasting influence on our world. Marshall set out to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism. Their massive, costly, and ambitious undertaking would confront Europeans and Americans alike with a vision at odds with their history and self-conceptions.